I wasn't talking about wikimedia channels but wiki projects (non wikimedia) in relation with recent complaint from someone else (mediawiki dev who wanted to open a channel for his wiki on freenode)
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:55 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Petr Bena wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Sébastien Santoro >> <dereck...@espace-win.org> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> One developer recently complained about some freenode policies, >>>> specifically that wiki projects (wikipedia etc has some kind of >>>> exception) are no longer allowed to be hosted on freenode network, >>>> which is supposed to host only opensource projects. >>>> It's fact that as >>>> the wikimedia project is becoming more large the freenode is getting >>>> less and less suitable. >>> You have the right to say anything, you've the duty to prove it. >>> >>> Could you support your three claims: >>> (i) only open source projects are allowed on Freenode >>> (ii) Wikimedia has an exception >>> (iii) Freenode can't scale with Wikimedia projects growth >> >> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Hosts#See_also there is a reference >> 2: Wikipedia channels are allowed, the mere fact that others are not >> makes it an exception >> 3: I never said that > > Regarding that Meta-Wiki link, you're referencing a footnote that reads: > > --- > Recent rejection email sent to a wiki project: "Whilst I'm sure that your > project has many admirable goals, it does not appear to be centric to the > concepts of free software, and so is not topical for our network. We are > imposing stricter criteria on new project registrations lately due to some > other registered groups having to be recinded. With this in mind, I'm afraid > we will need to reject this grf, and if you wish to use freenode for your > IRC channel, suggest that you take the "##" channel instead." > --- > > This may be true, but even if so, I don't think it's really relevant. > > As I understand it, freenode has no issue hosting Wikimedia channels (and > actively encourages it, even). Back when Rob was alive, he offered Tim an o > line to try to get _more_ of Wikimedia's channels (in particular, the RC > feeds that live on irc.wikimedia.org) on freenode. > > This particular discussion (regarding using irc.wikimedia.org for chat) has > come up a few times and isn't really worth re-hashing, I don't think. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
